exciting day

Well, the lady has been coming back to visit us a whole lot more than she did when there was white stuff on the ground, and quite frankly, if it wasn't for the carrots, I think it would be annoying. Fortunately, there are a bunch of us ponies and since she generally only plays with one at a time, some ponies can avoid being messed with altogether.  So yesterday she sat on my back and we walked around in the circle of logs.  It was fine but I am not sure she knows what she is doing.  I was trying to go in one direction or stop and look at stuff on the ground, and she would turn my head or squeeze my side with her legs and then at arbitrary times, for no reason at all, she'd make a funny noise and give me a carrot.  I hope I can get her trained soon.  She did that stuff with Gypsy and Billy too.  So then today, she came back with a long wiggly black stick and took a couple of us ponies in the circle of logs and shook the stick sometimes and made sounds.  She took Gypsy in first and then Gypsy didn't want to come out, so I got to go in with Gypsy, but we mostly just ignored Gypsy and I got lots more carrots than Gypsy did.  So after we walked and trotted and whoa-d then she got Sienna and she made us get out.  Sienna has never done any of that stuff before. She didn't like the circle of logs right from the git-go and kept walking back over to the gate.  The lady gave her carrots but Sienna was just bent about the whole "stuck inside the logs" situation. So she went a little way along the circle and then she pivoted and trotted over to the gate and jumped over it.  The gate is made of pieces of big logs that are flat on both sides and it is as high as a pony's chin so it was a pretty big leap.  She knocked half of the gate over and pulled it down.So then she was really happy and came galloping to us, so we all ran way off into the pasture to celebrate her freedom.  What fun!   Sienna still has the straps on her head, but the lady looked at the gate and then she left.  I hope she comes back to give us more carrots and make more excitement!                    

Grass at last

FINALLY we are starting to get some nice green grass growing.  We have been waiting forever for it. The lady still brings us hay and we eat some of it, but there is nice grass growing in the fields too.  We are hoping no more of that white stuff falls from the sky and covers over the nice grass.  Some of the ponies still have their white fuzzy winter coats, so they are ready if the white stuff comes back.  Most of my fuzzy hair fell out.  The lady comes back and scratches our backs with a shiny metal thing and that makes our hair fall out.  She brought another lady with her too and the other lady had carrots in her pockets, so we liked her a lot.  She held on to a rope that was attached to the straps that the lady puts on our heads and then she gave us carrots while our regular lady cut pieces off our feet.

   Today, our regular lady came back with hard white square things that taste good and put them on the ground.  We had those before, but they went away, so we were excited to get new ones that we bit and licked.  Then the lady put the big lumpy thing on some of our backs.  She had the thing on my back and took me into the log circle pen and she sat on my back.  I got lots of carrots and I hardly had to do anything at all.  Then she sat on Haylie and gave her carrots, but she didn't have the brown lumpy thing or any straps on her. Then the sky got really dark and it sounded like a whole herd of ponies was running at us from the sky.  So the lady left and then we got wet.  But it was fun for a while and we still have the white square things, so it was a very exciting day.  And we have GRASS!    
  

Yearling Weaning

We are still hanging out here in fetlock deep wet ground and water, waiting for the grass to grow.  It is dark and windy.  The lady came back to my dad Bob's pasture and took him up to the barn.  Then she came back and took that big gray mare Mixta and Cracker Jack (CJ) up to the barn too. Taca and her baby from last year, Peaches' Brother, (PB) were not happy that the others left them, so they were happy to go with the lady when she took them up to the barn as well.  CJ and PB were very excited to go on a big excursion and walk up the hill by those big horses.  They had their tails all up and were prancing and full of themselves.  In the barn, they went in stalls that had hay inside, but when Taca and PB got to their stall, they went in and the lady brought Taca right back out and took her back to the pasture. So PB was left in the stall with CJ and his mom next door and Bob across the aisle. But then she took Mixta and then Bob back out to the pasture too.  So now CJ and PB are stuck in the stalls with the hay.  They are kind of upset about it,  but you know, my dad Bob was getting annoyed with those boys back in his pasture anyway. He would chase them and bite them and they hardly even did anything except the typical rambunctious boy pony stuff.  But Bob has his hooves full, with us ponies in the field behind him to keep an eye on and then there are some new stupid geese who have decided to move into his pasture because of the new pond that is there.  The new geese were chased out of the big pond by the old nesting geese, so they have come barging into Bob's field.  Of course, there won't be any pond in there if this rain ever stops.  But until then, Bob has to keep chasing the flapping geese around.  At any rate, the two yearlings are yelling a little bit and so it is a little noisy because other horses and ponies have to answer them.  Taca isn't yelling about her yearling being gone, Taca is pretty philosophical about it, and just figures it is time to move on. Taca is pretty chubby, so she is probably going to have another baby and would just as soon not have last year's kid hanging around. (If Taca has a filly, I think the lady is going to have to name her Peaches' Brother's Sister or PBS.)  Mixta isn't going to have a baby tho, so she is sad that her baby is gone.  Now the yearlings are going to learn manners and wear halters on their heads and be grown up ponies.